pseudo-seed for the PRNG before testing DSA

diff --git a/apps/speed.c b/apps/speed.c
index b3130def8b928b0ea43d915eb39f8fe8ca58ae0c..f7a8e00a8bc29923b7cc9c2b7d91b1df82b3baa7 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/speed.c
+++ b/apps/speed.c
@@ -1030,6 +1030,11 @@ int MAIN(int argc, char **argv)
 
        RAND_pseudo_bytes(buf,20);
 #ifndef NO_DSA
+       if (RAND_status() != 1)
+               {
+               RAND_seed(rnd_seed, sizeof rnd_seed);
+               rnd_fake = 1;
+               }
        for (j=0; j<DSA_NUM; j++)
                {
                unsigned int kk;
@@ -1089,6 +1094,7 @@ int MAIN(int argc, char **argv)
                                dsa_doit[j]=0;
                        }
                }
+       if (rnd_fake) RAND_cleanup();
 #endif
 
        fprintf(stdout,"%s\n",SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_VERSION));

diff --git a/apps/testdsa.h b/apps/testdsa.h
index a322978f8c2efaadfea17d1812111e685c1db91c..4a453d4fbc0d8a1b644340e5ab5decd7928344f6 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/testdsa.h
+++ b/apps/testdsa.h
@@ -146,3 +146,5 @@ DSA *get_dsa2048()
        return(dsa);
        }
 
+static const char rnd_seed[] = "string to make the random number generator think it has entropy";
+static int rnd_fake = 0;